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Free Enterprise
“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense. It appears everywhere from political speeches to pop culture. And it i…
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Enduring Alliance
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June 21, 2022
Taking Leave, Taking Liberties
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December 9, 2021
Traveling Black
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November 10, 2021
Humane
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September 10, 2021
The Cosmopolites
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August 30, 2021
Organizing the 20th-Century World
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August 24, 2021
Gossip Men
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July 15, 2021
Legalist Empire
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April 8, 2021
A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations
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Whistleblowing Nation
In the past decade, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden became household names. They were celebrated by many as truth-tellers who blew the whistle on g…
December 15, 2020
Ghosts of Sheridan Circle
On September 21, 1976, a car bomb exploded in Washington DC, killing a former Chilean diplomat named Orlando Letelier and his American colleague Ronni…
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The United States of War
Since its founding, the United States has been at peace for only eleven years. Across nearly two-and-a-half centuries, that’s a lot of war. In his new…
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Dead Tree Media
Michael Stamm’s book Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018) begins with the simple b…
September 17, 2020
Oil Powers
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August 7, 2020
Just Like Us
The American attitude towards outsiders has always been ambivalent. The United States, it is commonly said, is a nation of immigrants; today, it’s the…
June 26, 2020
The Diplomacy of Decolonisation
In the summer of 1960, the Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium. Only one week later, however, Belgium had already dispatched parat…
May 6, 2020
Liberalism at Large
The Economist is a curious publication. It always takes a point of view (as opposed to the all-the-news-that’s-fit-to-print approach). It maintains a …
April 27, 2020
Of Privacy and Power
We live in an interconnected world. People, goods, and services leap across borders like never before. Terrorist organizations, like al-Qaida, and dig…
April 10, 2020
Canada and the World since 1867
If you haven’t been able to tell by the way I pronounce the word “about,” I should probably let you know that I’m from Canada. And I have to make a co…
April 3, 2020
Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia
After the Second World War, an Australian diplomat was one of eight people to draft the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. And in the years that follow…
March 4, 2020
Mecca of Revolution
In his brilliant, category-smashing book, Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order (Oxford University Press, 2016), Jef…
February 28, 2020
Barriers Down
Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow of information. It’s an idea t…
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The Colonial Politics of Global Health
International organizations throw up several obstacles—their immense scale, their dry bureaucratic language—to the historian trying to piece together …